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Raleigh (/ˈrɑːli/; RAH-lee) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is the tenth-most populous city in the Southeast, the 41st-most populous city in the U.S., and the largest city of the Research Triangle metro area. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city. The city covers a land area of 147.6 sq mi (382 km2). The U.S. Census Bureau counted the city's population as 474,069 in the 2020 census. It is one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States. The city of Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh, who established the lost Roanoke Colony in present-day Dare County.

Raleigh is home to North Carolina State University (NC State) and is part of the Research Triangle together with Durham (home of Duke University and North Carolina Central University) and Chapel Hill (home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). The name of the Research Triangle (often shortened to the "Triangle") originated after the 1959 creation of Research Triangle Park (RTP), located in Durham and Wake counties, among the three cities and universities. The Triangle encompasses the U.S. Census Bureau's Raleigh-Durham-Cary Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which had an estimated population of 2,037,430 in 2013. The Raleigh Metropolitan Statistical Area had an estimated population of 1,390,785 in 2019.

Most of Raleigh is located within Wake County, with a small portion extending into Durham County. The towns of Cary, Morrisville, Garner, Clayton, Wake Forest, Apex, Holly Springs, Fuquay-Varina, Knightdale, Wendell, Zebulon, and Rolesville are some of Raleigh's primary nearby suburbs and satellite towns.

Zhenjiang, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, is an important port and scenic tourist city in the Yangtze River Delta, with a geomorphological trend of high in the west and low in the east, high in the south and low in the north, belonging to the north subtropical monsoon climate, with a total area of 3847 square kilometers. it has jurisdiction over 3 districts and 3 county-level cities; the resident population is 3.1964 million in 2018. Zhenjiang changed its name many times: it was called "Zhu Fang" in the Spring and Autumn period, "Guyang" in the warring States period, "Dantu" in the Qin Dynasty, "Jingkou" in the three Kingdoms, "South Xuzhou" in the Southern Dynasty and Song Dynasty, and "Runzhou" after the unification of the Sui Dynasty. The name of Zhenjiang has been changed since the Northern Song Dynasty. Zhenjiang is located in the southeast coast of China, southern Jiangsu, the center of the north wing of the Yangtze River Delta, the only confluence hub of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal; Changzhou and Wuxi to the south, Yangzhou to the north and Nanjing to the west; it is an important traffic center in East China. Within the territory
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